Social Commentaries
The Compliment Qualified
From Complete Poetical Works, ed. E. H. Coleridge (1912)
Social Commentaries
To wed a fool, I really cannot see
Why thou, Eliza, art so very loth;
Still on a par with other pairs you'd be,
Since thou hast wit and sense enough for both.
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Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. “The Compliment Qualified.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/coleridge/325/.
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